Posted on 03/25/2023 1:20:41 AM PDT by Cronos
The initial upper hand gained by the Russian forces in Bakhmut, the Ukrainian city which Moscow has spent months trying to capture, seems to have fizzled out as Kyiv’s counteroffensive has been successful in stalling the advances made by Kremlin.
On Friday, Ukraine's commander in chief Lt Gen Valerii Zaluzhnyi said in a Facebook post that the situation in the eastern city is “stabilising”.
Acknowledging that the situation on Ukraine's frontlines "is the toughest in the Bakhmut direction”, Lt Gen Zaluzhnyi said that due to the “tremendous efforts” of the Ukrainian forces “we are managing to stabilise the situation".
He posted on the social media network after briefing the UK's Chief of Defence Staff, Admiral Sir Tony Radakin, about the situation in Ukraine.
In recent months, the eastern city has become the centre of the biggest battle between Russia and Ukraine. For Moscow, Bakhmut is a key target in its plans to fully capture the industrialised eastern region of Donbas.
However, the long-drawn-out war yielded little results for the Russian offensive despite losing thousands of troops.
On Thursday, the commander of Ukraine’s ground forces, Oleksandr Syrsky, claimed that Russian forces were "exhausted" near Bakhmut, reports BBC.
He added that Russia is “losing significant strength", though it "has not given up hope of taking Bakhmut at all costs despite losses in manpower and equipment”.
"Very soon we will take advantage of this opportunity, like we did near Kyiv, Kharkiv, Balakliya and Kupiansk," he was quoted as saying, referring to successful Ukrainian counter-offensives last year.
However, despite Ukraine’s assertion that Moscow’s attack was flagging near Bakhmut, the Russian forces launched new assaults in the northern and southern stretches of the front in the Donbas region.
Heavy fighting was reported in the northern sector along a stretch of front running from Lyman to Kupiansk as well as in the south at Avdiivka on the outskirts of the Russian-held city of Donetsk.
(With inputs from agencies)
Macgregor always says the same thing, “it is over”, ‘annihilated”.
MACGREGOR: That is over, and the phase in which we find ourselves now, Russian forces have now maneuvered to encircle and surround the remaining Ukraine forces and destroy them, through a series of massive rocket artillery strikes, airstrikes with Russian armor then slowly, but surely closing the distance and annihilating what’s left.
So this is a — this is the beginning, frankly of the end of Ukrainian resistance.
CARLSON: So the ugly stuff is just beginning.
MACGREGOR: Yes.
transcript of “Tucker Carlson Tonight” on March 1, 2022.
September 22, 2022
Macgregor: Ukraine is really on the ropes.
“””I don’t believe anyone seriously thought Russia would overtake all of Ukraine, a country almost the size of Texas, and that includes Putin.”””
That was exactly the idea, take Kyiv in 3 days, Zelensky killed by the hunter/killer teams assigned to assassinate him, and then rule the nation and mop up any scattered units over a few weeks that refused to submit to Zelensky’s replacement.
The plan was to take the government, not travel all over the country fighting every little unit or outpost or stubborn Mayor.
So basically, they lost thousands trying to take Kiev just for fun.
Macgregor has been consistently wrong since last February when he predicted that Ukraine would fall in 2 weeks.
He’s not worth reading
The Ukrainians fought on their own at the battle of Hostomel and of Kyiv in February and March.
A d they defeated the Russians
You’re wasting your time
Facts best we can ascertain them are irrelevant
Russia took a house ! It’s over !
I think Ukraine is like Iraq fighting Iran, an enemy of the US, and Zelensky is like Saddam Hussein but with one big difference: Saddam could afford to pay the US whereas, Zelensky can’t afford squat.
Biden is too stupid to figure that out.
Here is Macgregor on Sept. 12 2022, remember as the Ukrainians had just started that fantastic counter-attack.
Spectacularly bad Ukraine analysis on Fox News.
Sep 12, 2022
Tucker Carlson’s top Russia-Ukraine war expert Douglas MacGregor, on Friday night: “This entire war may be over” soon, “right now things are going very, very badly” for the Ukrainians and they’re “desperate,” “they’re losing once again just south of Kharkiv.”
https://twitter.com/Biz_Ukraine_Mag/status/1569377619941924866
That was his job and duty
He’s been vocal that bombing Serbs was a bad idea
You have one thing
He was inaccurate about the war or limited war then early on with a couple of statements
You’ve gotten a lot of mileage out of that
MacGregor is MAGA
all stick with him
That is not foam. It is another bodily fluid.
>>Macgregor was the top planner for General Wesley Clark, the military commander of NATO, for its 1999 attack on Serbia.
According to a study by the Rand Corporation for the Air Force, Clark rejected individual plans submitted by his subordinates, and instead “cut and paste” parts from different plans.
>>And both of them were fired like dogs for trying to start WW3 at the Pristina airport in Kosovo.
“Fired like dogs?” LOL! That level of hyperbole ranks up there with “them ... trying to start WW3.”
It appears MacGregor has little respect for Clark’s judgment. In this interview MacGregor disparaged Clark’s tendency to parrot the status quo. Watch:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqLooguSWAc&t=4m10s
Mr. Kalamata
It’s still mostly arty
Even in Bakhmut
Did you watch this, yourself? It clearly shows that Colonel MCGregor is right. The Russians are advancing.
Have no idea what you’re talking about.
This video clearly shows the Russians are advancing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VG1pMlyoMcA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VG1pMlyoMcA
This looks pretty believable.
I think it’s a war of attrition. Both sides are losing. Ukraine has fewer men to lose.
Russia will not give in, as they’ve always done.
IF they were losing to the point that there’s no hope, they’d launch nukes.
Right now, they’ve taken a lot of Eastern Ukraine. This is factual.
The map doesn't lie. Ukrainian continues to lose ground in Bakhmut against the Wagner group, not the regular Russian military.
Wagner Breaksthrough Southern Bakhmut Reaching The Center
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VG1pMlyoMcA
And, Russia holds 10-1 edge in ammo fired. Zelensky is throwing what's left his army into Bakhmut. That means massive causalities for Ukrainian in addition to the near 200,000 dead and 400,000 dead or taken out of action.
This battle has been incredibly humiliating for the Russians, and their proxy supporters.
I remember back months ago when the Russians were arguing over who should get the credit for taking the city. Except they never have.
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